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💥NEW: Dem Senate Candidate *PRAISES TRUMP* on CNN for "GOOD JOB OF SECURING THE BORDER"👏🇺🇸
Mississippi Senate Candidate Scott Colom called himself a "common sense Democrat" before offering the well-deserved credit to the president.
There have been 17 straight months of 0 releases at the border under Trump.
It's a remarkable achievement that Democrats and the corporate media don't discuss enough.
Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith is leading Colom by over 3 points, according to the Poliwave polling average.
And Mississippi has not elected a Democrat Senator since 1982.
But major props to Colom for highlighting Trump's border success on CNN.
Aidan McLaughlin retweeted
Pete Hegseth got married at Trump National Golf Club while he still worked at Fox, but I think this is the first Fox wedding at Mar-a-Lago?
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🚨 White House is weighing mass pardons for junior staff, reports @JasJWright and @jstein_sun of @washingtonsun washingtonsun.com/whitehouse…
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The CEO of the biggest drone company in Israel says that his objective is to recreate Ender's Game, the book where the main character thinks he's playing a video game but actually commits genocide
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(Bloomberg) -- With a fresh infusion of cash to his super political action committee in the first two weeks of October, Elon Musk has now given more than $445 million in the current election cycle and become one of the biggest-ever contributors to such groups.
Aidan McLaughlin retweeted
“When Trump spoke of eliminating the national debt, total debt stood at nearly $35 trillion. On the current trajectory, total debt could reach $45 trillion by 2028.” theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1…
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“To the best of my knowledge — and I knew Reagan pretty well — he was not an ass man,” Newt Gingrich said, adding, “at least not about guys.” huffpost.com/entry/newt-ging…
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The Russians hacked Jared's phone. Then Dutch cyberspies reverse-engineered that hack, giving them unprecedented access to his world. Bananas story here in @VanityFair
Jared Kushner’s Hacked Phone Revealed His Secret Negotiations—Including More Than $700 Million In Transfers vanityfair.com/story/jared-k…
Aidan McLaughlin retweeted
"Top officials in the State Department made clear that only candidates who voted for President Donald Trump would be eligible for the mid-to-upper level foreign service roles. They also told candidates that their campaign donation history would be examined and any donation to Democrats would be disqualifying."
SCOOP: The State Dept has started asking career diplomats up for promotion if they voted for Trump in 16, 20, 24.
Federal law prohibits politically based hiring for career staff.
State tells @washingtonsun it's screening for "fidelity" and execution of the president's vision👇
Aidan McLaughlin retweeted
I wrote about Troy Jackson, whose campaign combines left populism on economic issues with hyper-progressivism on cultural ones. Jackson emphasizes his working class bona fides, but like Platner before him, his maximalist politics cater to laptop job progressive suburbanites. 1/
Troy Jackson is courting working-class voters in Maine—while championing a set of policies that many of them don’t support, @Tyler_A_Harper argues. theatlantic.com/culture/2026…
Alright everyone simmer down
SCOOP: Senate Republicans fear Mississippi is in play axios.com/2026/10/21/mississ…
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SCOOP: AIPAC will no longer endorse congressional candidates or earmark donations to congressional campaigns. The group's super PAC, United Democracy Project, will continue to operate and it will urge members to donate directly to pro-Israel candidates. jewishinsider.com/2026/10/ai…
Aidan McLaughlin retweeted
"In multiple rallies, Trump has gone on and on about the relative hotness of male politicians, soldiers, and even protesters. As a result, people on the internet have diagnosed him with a novel medical condition: gay dementia." From @helenlewis:
theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1…
